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Monday Musings: Talking About Me a.k.a. The Facts About J. B. Garner

I’ve often been described as an out-going person, yet I am also an intensely private person. It’s the reason, I think, that I don’t really review as ‘myself’, instead creating the somewhat comedic format of ‘literary cuisine’ and all of that. It’s that little privacy fence I erected, to fulfill that side of me that just wants to hermit in his room and write stories.

So maybe it’s high time to talk about myself a little.

My full name is James Benjamin Garner. J. B. is what everyone called me when I was a child, and it’s something of a call-back to my youth to use it again.

I was born in 1976, which might have something to do with my love of Captain America and a general sense of patriotism.

It also means that I’m almost forty, which is apparently when my warranty expires.

Despite my avowed patriotism, I’m politically very left leaning. I attribute that more to the drift of American politics so far to the extreme right that my formerly centrist, liberty-focused beliefs now sit solidly in the deep left.

I’m an asexual panromantic, which sounds awfully confusing, but is pretty simple to parse.

I’m something of an old-fashioned romantic at heart. I have a soft-spot for well-crafted romances in film, literature, and other media. I also have a soft-spot for gory horror and high-octane action. So that can be complicated, but I like to think it just means I have more things to love than others.

My favorite musical genres are jazz, swing, and blues. I do, however, find examples in just about every genre to love. Fusion works really tickle my fancy, like Gangstagrass’s rap-bluegrass mix and electro-swing’s general combination of swing and electronica.

I’m a big fan of video games and their potential to become a great art form. Unfortunately, I have no real talent for programming, much like visual art. Still, the idea of being able to turn my literary ideas into interactive games forms a dream of mine.

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It means that I have no sexual interest at all, but I have romantic feelings towards specific people who can be of any gender (which sounds like it would be bi-romantic, but that has different broader connotations). I guess that IS way more complicated that I thought it was.